Outside the window was a dark night, a night without stars or moon, not even a few night lights in the shops. There were only a few not-so-bright street lights scattered on the quiet and deserted streets.
Xia Yujie withdrew his gaze, moved his fingers, and sent a message to Gojo Satoru.
Jie: Wu, you go back.
There was no immediate reply from the other party, and Geto Xia put down his phone. His eyes fell on the pink keychain hanging not far away, and his pupils couldn't help but shrink.
Under the warm yellow light, the keychain, which could only be considered exquisite, seemed to shine.
The keychain was bought by Naiqi No Rose when he and his students went to the amusement park. It was a beautifully crafted little rabbit, made mostly of glass, but surprisingly exuded the luster of jade.
The rabbit had a small backpack on its back and a small hole pierced through its ears with a bunch of beautiful light purple tassels hanging from it.
And a small round tag that says:
"Now that you're on land, don't think about what's happening in the sea."
Probably a motivational phrase or something.
This kind of thing has never been in line with Geto's aesthetic taste, but the brown-haired girl smiled sweetly when she gave it to him. She said that this keychain was particularly suitable for him.
Is it suitable?
Xia Yujie stared at the small sign and his fingertips moved.
Landed...?
With a light chuckle, Xia Yujie leaned over and inserted the keychain into his index finger, then raised his hand and squinted at the bright incandescent lights of the hotel.
In fact, he is still in the sea.
He was tossed left and right by the surging and roaring waves, and had no way to save himself.
The cell phone buzzed, and Xia Yujie let go of the key chain, letting it fall onto the clean white sheets due to gravity. He picked up the cell phone and took a look.
This is a message from Gojo Satoru. It was sent about a minute ago. I don’t know why it only came now.
Wu: Okay, I’ll go back right away.
Without asking why, Gojo Satoru... believed in him unconditionally.
His eyes fixed on this sentence, Xia Yujie was silent for a while.
After a long time, he finally laughed softly.
Maybe, he touched the edge of the shore?
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It was 12:20 noon in Japan when Gojo Satoru's message came through.
It was 2:20 in the morning in Chicago. Xia Yujie was suddenly awakened by the vibration of his cell phone. He turned on the phone almost instantly. The light on the screen was so bright that it was blinding.
He couldn't sleep well at all, and the violent and terrible dreams kept washing over his nerves, so he woke up almost as soon as his cell phone rang.
It’s a message from Gojo Satoru.
Wu: Jie, speed up.
It was a nonsensical remark, but it made Geto Suguru's face darken.
The bright white light from the cell phone shone on Xia Yujie's disheveled face, making him look like an evil Asura who had returned from hell.
The assistant supervisor just walked in with a shopping bag. He thought Geto was sleeping, so he was about to put the shopping bag down and leave - but he unexpectedly saw the terrifying side of this long-haired young man.
His fingertips went limp and the shopping bag almost fell to the ground.
He saw the young man illuminated by the dim light of the mobile phone move, turn his head and look in his direction. A pair of black eyes as thick as the abyss looked at him gloomily, which was very scary.
It was only at this time that I truly felt the youth who had initiated the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons.
He is indeed a scary man that all sorcerers should be wary of.
"As for the shopping bags, just put them on the shoe cabinet." Xia Yujie blinked and regained his usual gentle and harmless smile. There was no trace of the broken expression on his face a few seconds ago.
The assistant supervisor once again raised his opinion of Geto Suguru in his mind, nodded hurriedly, put the shopping bag on the shoe cabinet, quickly closed the door and left.
After all, it was late at night...he was really scared!
Xia Yujie watched the door close and his expression became gloomy again.
In fact, he didn't need to wear a mask of gentleness and harmlessness for an auxiliary supervisor, but he did it anyway.
Xia Yujie stroked the screen of his mobile phone with his fingertips, lowered his eyes, and fell down as if he suddenly lost his strength, with the back of his head hitting the soft pillow.
He placed the cell phone upside down on the bed. The unlit room lost its only source of light and became completely dark. Xia Yujie stared at the pitch-black ceiling with his dark eyes without any emotion.
Three corpses with different appearances of death appeared uncontrollably in front of his eyes, and soon the images began to roll, and countless completely different appearances of death appeared in front of Xia Yujie's eyes again and again.
The only thing they have in common is that they all have eyes that are gray because they are dead.
Those eyes seemed to be filled with the desire for life.
Xia Yujie closed his eyes tightly, trying to dispel those horrible images.
The blood-red countdown hung prominently on his retina.
He picked up his phone and sent a message to Gojo Satoru.
J:How are the students?
Gojo Satoru still replied within seconds as usual, but this time, the message was thirty seconds long.
Xia Yujie stared at the voice for more than ten seconds, and his fingertips touched it as if out of control. The energetic voices of the boy and girl instantly filled the entire dark room.
"Good evening, Mr. Getsu!" "We are all doing well. We even removed a special grade cursed spirit." "We are super awesome."
"Teacher Geto, please come back soon!"
Mixed in among these voices was Gojo Satoru's unique voice, which, after distinguishing, sounded like a protest tone of "Hey, hey, that's my cell phone, teacher!"
An uncontrollable smile appeared at the corners of his lips.
Different from the smile that he often had on his face before, this smile was like a beam of warm sunshine shining into the dark storage room. The dust and moisture combined with the warm sunshine to form a golden band of light.